Adapting to the downward spiral
The quickening tempo of requests from local Jewish groups for cut-rate advertising deals in the AJW is surely a sign ...
Tag: Mordecai Specktor
Madoff scam wipes out assets of local family foundations
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A number of Minnesota-based private foundations that have given generously to Jewish institutions apparently have lost most ...
Tim Sparks, Tom Lieberman will reunite for Feb. 7 coffeehouse concert at Beth El
Guitar virtuoso Tim Sparks will perform tunes by klezmer legend Naftule Brandwein at the Feb. 7 show. By MORDECAI SPECKTOR ...
Harvey Pekar’s mundane tales appear in new collection
Harvey Pekar, the beloved Jewish curmudgeon from Cleveland, attained some renown with appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman ...
Yad Vashem offers virtual tour of 'My Homeland' exhibition on the Web
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, has put its exhibition My Homeland — Holocaust Survivors in ...
No war no more
As a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, Ari Folman arrived at the Beirut airport during Israel’s 1982 Lebanon War. ...
Two states or no state?
Yoni Shumacher, a 21-year-old paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, told me about the Gaza war this week. During a ...
Editorial: Israel, Gaza and Obama
Should the American Jewish World provide varied sources of information and contending opinions about Israel, or should the paper simply ...
Victims of Madoff scam in Twin Cities reveal new details
The local fallout from the Bernard Madoff scam was updated in an article last week in Fortune magazine. Writer Dave Kansas, ...
Israel at war — and American Jews
The American Jewish World provides a weekly assortment of news reports and opinion pieces about Israel and the Middle East ...
